mHealth for Midwives: A Call to Action

Speciale, A; Freytsis, Maria

doi:10.1111/j.1542-2011.2012.00243.x

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“…The need for training, supervision and follow-up remains, but future use of e-learning could increase knowledge [23]. New opportunities for communication, education and decision support through mobile devices (mHealth) could also provide maternity care workers with remote advice and produce data for feedback and audit [68]. These technologies and other adaptations of the partograph, in order “to be of optimal value to the users” [14] in different settings, could facilitate use.…”

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Barriers to and incentives for achieving partograph use in obstetric practice in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Ollerhead¹,

Osrin²

2014

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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BackgroundThe partograph is a graphic display of the progress of labour, recommended by the World Health Organization, but often underused in practice in low- and middle-income countries. We were interested in going beyond demonstration of potential efficacy – on which the existing literature concentrates - through a systematic review to identify barriers to and incentives for achieving partograph use.MethodsWe searched Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Maternity and Infant Care, POPLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus, from 1st January 1994 to 30th September 2013, using the term ‘partogra*’ to include ‘partograph’, ‘partogram’, or ‘partogramme’. The selection criteria were for primary or secondary research describing barriers to and incentives for partograph use in low- and middle-income countries, in English, reported in peer-reviewed publications since 1994. Thematic analysis of text on partograph use was applied to a commonly used framework for change in clinical practice, with levels describing the innovation, the individual professional, the woman, and social, organisational, economic and political contexts.ResultsReported barriers to and incentives for partograph use related to the partograph itself, professional skills and practice, clinical leadership and quality assurance, and the organisational environment within the wider provision of obstetric care. Neither the evidence base for its effectiveness, nor its credibility, was reported as a barrier to use.ConclusionIdentifying and addressing local barriers and incentives in low- and middle-income countries, based on those in published research, could inform strategies to improve partograph use. Emerging technologies could be used to address some barriers. The thresholds for essential maternity care at which the partograph adds value should be further evaluated.

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Barriers to and incentives for achieving partograph use in obstetric practice in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Ollerhead¹,

Osrin²

2014

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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“…For example, mHealth has been used to send and receive information about clients (Speciale & Freytsis, 2013), applications (apps) have been developed and used for consumers with ongoing health conditions such as adolescents with diabetes (Larkin, 2011), hospitals are using wikis to upload, critique, and edit evidence-based information to better plan patient care (Thielst, 2011a), and school nurses use social media to keep in contact with students who require ongoing treatment (Chilvers, 2011). However, concern about confidentiality and privacy has limited the use of social media among the health professions to some degree and led to the development of social media guidelines by professional bodies including the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and Australian College of Nursing and Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Coiera, 2013;Mansfield et al, 2011).…”

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Australian health professions student use of social media

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Increased bandwidth, broadband network availability and improved functionality have enhanced the accessibility and attractiveness of social media. The use of the internet by higher education students has markedly increased. Social media are already used widely across the health sector but little is currently known of the use of social media by health profession students in Australia. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to explore health profession students' use of social media and their media preferences for sourcing information. An electronic survey was made available to health profession students at ten participating universities across most Australian states and territories. Respondents were 637 first year students and 451 final year students. The results for first and final year health profession students indicate that online media is the preferred source of information with only 20% of students nominating traditional peer-reviewed journals as a preferred information source. In addition, the results indicate that Facebook® usage was high among all students while use of other types of social media such as Twitter® remains comparatively low.As health profession students engage regularly with social media, and this use is likely to grow rather than diminish, educational institutions are challenged to consider the use of social media as a validated platform for learning and teaching.

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“…Second, in terms of supply promotion, mHealth can promote supply management which can reduce the risk of stock-outs and facilitate referrals between CHWs and doctors. [46] mHealth also can enhance performance productivity or efficiency through real-time task monitoring or decision support tools. [38] When appropriate, mHealth could help task shifting through education and training, where limited numbers of skilled health workers are available [47].…”

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Using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to Model mHealth Impact on Neonatal Survival in Resource-Limited Settings

Labrique

LeFevre

et al. 2014

PLoS ONE

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While the importance of mHealth scale-up has been broadly emphasized in the mHealth community, it is necessary to guide scale up efforts and investment in ways to help achieve the mortality reduction targets set by global calls to action such as the Millennium Development Goals, not merely to expand programs. We used the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)–an evidence-based modeling software–to identify priority areas for maternal and neonatal health services, by formulating six individual and combined interventions scenarios for two countries, Bangladesh and Uganda. Our findings show that skilled birth attendance and increased facility delivery as targets for mHealth strategies are likely to provide the biggest mortality impact relative to other intervention scenarios. Although further validation of this model is desirable, tools such as LiST can help us leverage the benefit of mHealth by articulating the most appropriate delivery points in the continuum of care to save lives.

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mHealth for Midwives: A Call to Action

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Barriers to and incentives for achieving partograph use in obstetric practice in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Barriers to and incentives for achieving partograph use in obstetric practice in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Australian health professions student use of social media

Using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to Model mHealth Impact on Neonatal Survival in Resource-Limited Settings

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